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He started dancing when he was able to walk as got inspired by his two older sisters Sarah and Sirris, who used to be competition dancers as well,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cputGwfEFW4 Get to Know: Sean Lew]</ref> took his first dance classes when he was four and started competing at the age of five. He got his first professional gig as dancer when he was eight years old on the ''Glee'' show. He won on Dance-Off Juniors season one episode eight, competed on season one of NBC's World of Dance as member of ImmaBEAST and on season two with his partner [[Kaycee Rice]] as Sean & Kaycee. As dancer he appeared on many TV shows, such as, on ''Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards'' 2012 and 2014, on ''Dancing with the Stars'' 2013 and ''The X-Factor'' together with Carly Rose Sonenclar at the finals in 2012. He was also interview guest concerning dance on ''NBC morning news'', ''KTLA5 news'' and ''LA TV - The Zoo''. He appeared on Sia's music short film video "The Greatest" with [[Maddie Ziegler]]. And up-coming (post-production), on the ''Step Up China (Step Up 6)'' musical together with Jade Cynoweth and Janelle Ginestra-Adams, but the release date is currently unknown. It might be with about $17,000,000 USD estimated budget Sean's biggest project he participated in.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4060544/ Step Up China]</ref> | He started dancing when he was able to walk as got inspired by his two older sisters Sarah and Sirris, who used to be competition dancers as well,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cputGwfEFW4 Get to Know: Sean Lew]</ref> took his first dance classes when he was four and started competing at the age of five. He got his first professional gig as dancer when he was eight years old on the ''Glee'' show. He won on Dance-Off Juniors season one episode eight, competed on season one of NBC's World of Dance as member of ImmaBEAST and on season two with his partner [[Kaycee Rice]] as Sean & Kaycee. As dancer he appeared on many TV shows, such as, on ''Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards'' 2012 and 2014, on ''Dancing with the Stars'' 2013 and ''The X-Factor'' together with Carly Rose Sonenclar at the finals in 2012. He was also interview guest concerning dance on ''NBC morning news'', ''KTLA5 news'' and ''LA TV - The Zoo''. He appeared on Sia's music short film video "The Greatest" with [[Maddie Ziegler]]. And up-coming (post-production), on the ''Step Up China (Step Up 6)'' musical together with Jade Cynoweth and Janelle Ginestra-Adams, but the release date is currently unknown. It might be with about $17,000,000 USD estimated budget Sean's biggest project he participated in.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4060544/ Step Up China]</ref> | ||
He was also one of the important supporting members to help Janelle and her future husband William "WillDaBeast" Adams (surname did change, it is Ginestra-Adams now) founding IMMA in 2012/2013 and became a member of the crews ImmaBEAST and LilBEAST <ref>[https://www.immabeast.co/lilbeasts-1 LilBeast]</ref>. Sean is considered as big influence-r on kid dancer talents today - as dancer, choreographer, teacher and mentor. For instance, he taught at THE LAB in West Covina and supported their dancers, who won season two of World of Dance and became hip-hop world champions in 2017.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7PJxvz3Gc Sean Lew “Weak” at The Lab]</ref> | He was also one of the important supporting members to help Janelle and her future husband William "WillDaBeast" Adams (surname did change, it is Ginestra-Adams now) founding IMMA in 2012/2013 and became a member of the crews ImmaBEAST and LilBEAST <ref>[https://www.immabeast.co/lilbeasts-1 LilBeast]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhdvrfxZAQ lilBEASTS Behind The Scenes]</ref>. Sean is considered as big influence-r on kid dancer talents today - as dancer, choreographer, teacher and mentor. For instance, he taught at THE LAB in West Covina and supported their dancers, who won season two of World of Dance and became hip-hop world champions in 2017.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7PJxvz3Gc Sean Lew “Weak” at The Lab]</ref> | ||
He started choreographing at the age of ten <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXX9ALAGsI Sean Lew - (Self-Choreography at 10 years old) Bring It On-Finally Famous Big Sean]</ref> and got finally his accolade as established choreographer during World of Dance season two by the judges, who were blown away by his unique, smart, well thought, storytelling and emotional choreography with the age of 16. Shortly afterwards he toured with Brain Friedman through Europe and Asia attending conventions and teaching master classes. But he already worked before with Janelle and Will on projects in China, Japan, Mexico and, of course, across the US as member of ImmaBEAST as dancer, teacher and choreographer. His first bigger concept video as choreographer, creative director, editor and dancer was "Wrong Words" in June 2017, when he worked first time on a project with his current permanent dance partner and best friend [[Kaycee Rice]]. But already "Miracle", filmed and edited by "Typo", was an impressive work.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4o_LfuCE38 Miracle l Oreo l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> | He started choreographing at the age of ten <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXX9ALAGsI Sean Lew - (Self-Choreography at 10 years old) Bring It On-Finally Famous Big Sean]</ref> and got finally his accolade as established choreographer during World of Dance season two by the judges, who were blown away by his unique, smart, well thought, storytelling and emotional choreography with the age of 16. Shortly afterwards he toured with Brain Friedman through Europe and Asia attending conventions and teaching master classes. But he already worked before with Janelle and Will on projects in China, Japan, Mexico and, of course, across the US as member of ImmaBEAST as dancer, teacher and choreographer. His first bigger concept video as choreographer, creative director, editor and dancer was "Wrong Words" in June 2017, when he worked first time on a project with his current permanent dance partner and best friend [[Kaycee Rice]]. But already "Miracle", filmed and edited by "Typo", was an impressive work.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4o_LfuCE38 Miracle l Oreo l Sean Lew Choreography]</ref> | ||
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Sean also dances many years as philanthropist, such as for http://www.idance4acure.org,<ref>[http://youtu.be/0O88GIxQ5u8 Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice Dancė Nėtwork Interview]</ref> and supporting to fight childhood cancer. Due his engagement and popularity, and those of many other dancers and choreographers, the funds rises very well, financing research and treatments for children with cancer. Other engagements by him went public are "#prayforpaloma" <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byBW-P5GdZ8 #prayforpaloma l Choreographed by Sean Lew l Gallant - Talking in Your Sleep]</ref> and https://pedrogtprelief.org <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoWhEAcEYWQ Sean and Kaycee - Skyscraper | D-trix Choreography]</ref>. | Sean also dances many years as philanthropist, such as for http://www.idance4acure.org,<ref>[http://youtu.be/0O88GIxQ5u8 Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice Dancė Nėtwork Interview]</ref> and supporting to fight childhood cancer. Due his engagement and popularity, and those of many other dancers and choreographers, the funds rises very well, financing research and treatments for children with cancer. Other engagements by him went public are "#prayforpaloma" <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byBW-P5GdZ8 #prayforpaloma l Choreographed by Sean Lew l Gallant - Talking in Your Sleep]</ref> and https://pedrogtprelief.org <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoWhEAcEYWQ Sean and Kaycee - Skyscraper | D-trix Choreography]</ref>. | ||
An other talent he is known for is cooking. He started cooking when he was seven years old<ref>[https://www.foodnetwork.com/videos/casting-sean-lew-0226195 Casting: Sean Lew]</ref> and won on season one episode 13 of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chopped_Junior_episodes "Chopped Junior"] $10,000 USD <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTh1zKmHvSk East Coast vs. West Coast | Chopped Junior | Food Network]</ref> and been on season two by six episodes of charity fund raising "Rachael Vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off" <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wuWOFUry-M Most-Hated Foods Challenge on Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off | Food Network]</ref>. He loves cooking for family, friends and sometimes the whole company, but, of course, everyone is welcome to join and help preparing, washing and cleaning up. He wanted once to have his own show called "The Dancing Chef", but it seems to change to "The Cooking Dancer" now. | An other talent he is known for is cooking. He started cooking when he was seven years old<ref>[https://www.foodnetwork.com/videos/casting-sean-lew-0226195 Casting: Sean Lew]</ref> and won on season one episode 13 of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chopped_Junior_episodes "Chopped Junior"] $10,000 USD <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTh1zKmHvSk East Coast vs. West Coast | Chopped Junior | Food Network]</ref> and been on season two by six episodes of charity fund raising "Rachael Vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off" <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wuWOFUry-M Most-Hated Foods Challenge on Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off | Food Network]</ref>. He loves cooking for family, friends and sometimes the whole company, but, of course, everyone is welcome to join and help preparing, washing and cleaning up. He wanted once to have his own show called "The Dancing Chef", but it seems to change to "The Cooking Dancer" now. | ||
Sean plays piano since he was six years old. Her won 2nd place at the Music Teachers Association of California when he was eight years old. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgb7TD4jGy8 Sean Lew -Music Teachers Association of California]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPG4PF3Iag Sean Lew (10) Play - Ballade Pour Adeline]</ref> Sean is also noticed as good singer and sound editor. He started singing to support his friend [[Tate McRae]], <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vauH3vceRI Distant - LYRICS - Sean Lew and Tate Mcrae]</ref> who is an excellent singer, but he didn't make it public for a long time. He published two music videos by covering "this town" by Niall Horan and "Youth ft. (Kahlid)" by Shawn Mendes. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6M9agmTPew youth l sean lew]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iznu-UuiHKY this town l sean lew]</ref> | Sean plays piano since he was six years old. Her won 2nd place at the Music Teachers Association of California when he was eight years old. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgb7TD4jGy8 Sean Lew -Music Teachers Association of California]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPG4PF3Iag Sean Lew (10) Play - Ballade Pour Adeline]</ref> Sean is also noticed as good singer and sound editor. He started singing to support his friend [[Tate McRae]], <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vauH3vceRI Distant - LYRICS - Sean Lew and Tate Mcrae]</ref> who is an excellent singer, but he didn't make it public for a long time. He published two music videos by covering "this town" by Niall Horan and "Youth ft. (Kahlid)" by Shawn Mendes. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6M9agmTPew youth l sean lew]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iznu-UuiHKY this town l sean lew]</ref> | ||
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He got the nickname "Lewser" by his family, who said it as a joke, but made later a family merchandise by that. <ref>[https://www.thelewser.com/ Lewser Merch]</ref> | He got the nickname "Lewser" by his family, who said it as a joke, but made later a family merchandise by that. <ref>[https://www.thelewser.com/ Lewser Merch]</ref> | ||
His skills as dancer are not less impressive. He started dancing with his older siblings Sarris and Sarah at Mather Dance Studio at the age of four and became a member of | His skills as dancer are not less impressive. He started dancing with his older siblings Sarris and Sarah at Mather Dance Studio at the age of four and became a member of Mather Dance company. He got at the beginning most of his technical training there - ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap, lyrical and hip-hop. He performed his first hip-hop dance on stage even before had a class. Most impressive, he learned ball room dancing as well and won with his partner "Sia" at the age of 8 or 9 two championships with the standards Rumba, Samba, Jive, ChaCha and Paso Nova in Latin dancing. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxREe7sEDl8 Sean Lew and Ria at Emerald Ball 2010 Latin]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z101DNPdqiA Hollywood dancesport Championships Latin Sean Lew & Ria solo]</ref> Due his work as dancing far from the dance community, her took also a lot of dance industrial classes in LA with some of the most influential and established choreographers; and got final on The Pulse on Tour in 2013 at the age of 12 as Elite Protégé and graduated as Elite Alumnus in 2014. Two years before, he met his friend and mentor those days William "WillDaBEAST" Adams, who became later to a kind of dance father or big brother for Sean and Sean supported him and his future wife Janelle Ginestra(-Adams) founding ImmaBEAST, by dancing on his videos, finding supporters and even cooking. In these days one of the most important dance industry companies in the world. Sean mixed more and more other influences to his style of dancing. NEYO stated at NBC's World of Dance season two to him: ''"I can watch someone else perform your choreography and know 'Yeah, that's Sean.'"'' | ||
Sean also learned the classics beyond mainstream dancing. Especially Galen Hooks, Tessandra Chavez and Nika Kjun give him frequently retro approaches. Galen let Sean perform "The West-Side Story" like a Broadway veteran,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BMy1Hz9No West Side Story - AMERICA - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/iF3rS26gUXI?t=214 West Side Story - Jet Song - Dance Choreography by Galen Hooks ft Sean Lew, Devin Jamieson]</ref> hard rock like the 80's (which drives the girls in classes crazy by this animal)<ref>[https://youtu.be/YdHSIws67Rc?t=61 Harry Styles - Kiwi - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> and jazz funk.<ref>[https://youtu.be/OsnljDj6wxo?t=131 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> Nika let Sean feel the 70's by "Greace", <ref>[https://youtu.be/8Sb4W9nQ-2s?t=82 GREASE - "You're The One That I Want"]</ref> funk and urban dance<ref>[https://youtu.be/0K0_KtyVZ9Q?t=69 Sia - Move Your Body | Nika Kljun Choreography]</ref>. Or soft rock by Tessandra <ref>[https://youtu.be/qyViCcJtigg?t=320 John Legend - Tonight - Dance Choreography by Tessandra Chavez]</ref> His new partner [[Kaycee Rice]] stated in NBC's World of Dance season two: "... he is good at everything. He is basically like a dance genius." His strongest suit is hip-hop.<ref>[https://youtu.be/uiIM647B4ZQ?t=314 SONNY - Run Around | Choreography by @NikaKljun]</ref> Sean's fingerprint of dancing can be described as the "Master of 1,001 Figures with Hands and Legs", making waves with his body and the most fierce accentuation of dancers of the younger generation. Giving him millions of permutations by texture movements and basics for innovative choreography as well. Due his ballet training he is capable do 8-10 two-feet-leading pirouettes in row and very fast, even with closed arms (extremely difficult), and a backward barrel, a 360° turn jump backwards with hanging arms. | Sean also learned the classics beyond mainstream dancing. Especially Galen Hooks, Tessandra Chavez and Nika Kjun give him frequently retro approaches. Galen let Sean perform "The West-Side Story" like a Broadway veteran,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BMy1Hz9No West Side Story - AMERICA - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/iF3rS26gUXI?t=214 West Side Story - Jet Song - Dance Choreography by Galen Hooks ft Sean Lew, Devin Jamieson]</ref> hard rock like the 80's (which drives the girls in classes crazy by this animal)<ref>[https://youtu.be/YdHSIws67Rc?t=61 Harry Styles - Kiwi - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> and jazz funk.<ref>[https://youtu.be/OsnljDj6wxo?t=131 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance - Choreography by Galen Hooks]</ref> Nika let Sean feel the 70's by "Greace", <ref>[https://youtu.be/8Sb4W9nQ-2s?t=82 GREASE - "You're The One That I Want"]</ref> funk and urban dance<ref>[https://youtu.be/0K0_KtyVZ9Q?t=69 Sia - Move Your Body | Nika Kljun Choreography]</ref>. Or soft rock by Tessandra <ref>[https://youtu.be/qyViCcJtigg?t=320 John Legend - Tonight - Dance Choreography by Tessandra Chavez]</ref> His new partner [[Kaycee Rice]] stated in NBC's World of Dance season two: "... he is good at everything. He is basically like a dance genius." His strongest suit is hip-hop.<ref>[https://youtu.be/uiIM647B4ZQ?t=314 SONNY - Run Around | Choreography by @NikaKljun]</ref> Sean's fingerprint of dancing can be described as the "Master of 1,001 Figures with Hands and Legs", making waves with his body<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15hKsqp8o8 Yours - SG Lewis / Sean Lew Choreography]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_SjFnXPQU SEAN LEW "RIDE" - CIARA | JOJO GOMEZ CHOREOGRAPHY]</ref> and the most fierce accentuation of dancers of the younger generation.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UgO1ghHozA Sean Lew Solo Dance Compilation]</ref> Giving him millions of permutations by texture movements and basics for innovative choreography as well. Due his ballet training he is capable do 8-10 two-feet-leading pirouettes in row and very fast, even with closed arms (extremely difficult), and a backward barrel, a 360° turn jump backwards with hanging arms. | ||
He doesn't have such flexibility like his partner Kaycee - he is frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. The couple is always noticed as outstanding, because both are extremely clean, controlled by a lot of multi-coordinated texture movements, fierce accentuation and high expressive performance. Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Charlize_Glass Charlize Glass], JT Church and the winner [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Eva_Igo Eva Igo]. | He doesn't have such flexibility like his partner Kaycee - he is frequently complaining that he has a spine and cannot do that - but the same musicality. The couple is always noticed as outstanding, because both are extremely clean, controlled by a lot of multi-coordinated texture movements, fierce accentuation <ref>[https://youtu.be/ACy9IGCWXd4?t=146 Unravel - Sabrina Claudio feat Kaycee & Sean | The Main Event | Tessandra Chavez Experience]</ref> and high expressive performance.<ref>[https://youtu.be/TmzVBGf6uKk?t=408 Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan - Choreography by Jake Kodish ft Sean Lew, Kaycee Rice, Jade Chynoweth]</ref> Both were nominated for the Industry Dance Awards 2018 for most fierce dancer under 18, together with [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Charlize_Glass Charlize Glass], JT Church and the winner [https://kiddancers.fandom.com/wiki/Eva_Igo Eva Igo]. | ||
==Dances== | ==Dances== | ||
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|How Instagram users make suggestions of some daring position of Sean & Kaycee Jordan have to photograph. Demonstrated Kaycee's iron tummy and leg muscles as well. About 2.2M+ views. | |How Instagram users make suggestions of some daring position of Sean & Kaycee Jordan have to photograph. Demonstrated Kaycee's iron tummy and leg muscles as well. About 2.2M+ views. | ||
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|Sean and Kaycee X Jordan Matter | THE FINAL DARE - Kaycee Rice | | Sean and Kaycee X Jordan Matter | THE FINAL DARE - Kaycee Rice | ||
|The last dare is demonstrated on Kaycee's channel - the legendary Dirty Dancing lift position from Jennifer Grey in the Gulf of Mexico at Venice Beach. | |The last dare is demonstrated on Kaycee's channel - the legendary Dirty Dancing lift position from Jennifer Grey in the Gulf of Mexico at Venice Beach. | ||
|[[Kaycee Rice]]<br />Jordan Matter | |[[Kaycee Rice]]<br />Jordan Matter | ||
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|The results were sensational. They had separated dancing, Kaycee had to dance two 360° pirouettes and keep orientation. Sean had to find Kaycee to meet. Kaycee had to jump on Sean. Sean had catch her and set her down backwards and to find her again. But they killed it, sensational clean and in sync. Maybe Matt was right and they are the only couple who could pull this off. About 1.5M+ views within 5 days. | |The results were sensational. They had separated dancing, Kaycee had to dance two 360° pirouettes and keep orientation. Sean had to find Kaycee to meet. Kaycee had to jump on Sean. Sean had catch her and set her down backwards and to find her again. But they killed it, sensational clean and in sync. Maybe Matt was right and they are the only couple who could pull this off. About 1.5M+ views within 5 days. | ||
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|“WITHOUT ME” ft Sean & Kaycee | Blindfold Dance Challenge (pt 2) | | “WITHOUT ME” ft Sean & Kaycee | Blindfold Dance Challenge (pt 2) | ||
|The part 2 of the challenge above. | |The part 2 of the challenge above. | ||
|[[Kaycee Rice]]<br />Matt Steffanina | |[[Kaycee Rice]]<br />Matt Steffanina | ||